Cacowards 2023 Doom's 30th Birthday

Will never be 'far-right' because that entails an aspect of racial supremacy.

Started off libertarian then moved towards a conservative viewpoint based on current events in the States starting in 2020 and my own experience in a professional setting.

I agree with you that this is inappropriate for a doom setting. Which is why I am now done talking about politics.

That is fine tbh. I already made Zzul Bases so it won't be that hard to make something more accessible. Yall will just have to let me know when something gets really stupid .

other than the runner ups i already mentioned liking i would add pablo dictter's smoking dog, morior invictus, irregular entropy, ichinichi, the first half of flesharmonic, that's about it, i haven't gone through a lot of gzdoom stuff as well as dbps. such awards tend to go to either flashy or artsy shit i marginally care about, or particularly well executed current day doomworld core so to speak. probably any jury would have an issue with my taste in doom

Hey guys, can you tell me why 40oz was banned on DW? Because in my time here I started liking him, I haven't seen anything mmm controversial coming from him.

the DW cabal wanted someone banned from the entire doom community, not just DW, and were enraged when 40 refused to enact essel's retarded fatwa.

A lot of shit in other words, but what can I say? Expectations were low to begin with.

Why all "Doom" communities can't just be friends again, since there is such huge festival that happened?
30 years of "Doom" - this is something, I must say...
Not every year you have such cool date.

Looks like i'm done with DW as well. I've struggled for quite some time to not pay attention and stay silent about the bullshit and bias that's going on in there, and just stick to mapping and Doom stuff only, but man, it's hard to ignore things. First it was the "let's cancel Carmack" nonsense that really threw me off a few months ago and made me question if i should continue posting there. Then there was the ban of Rasta Man, which was another prime example of bias... i don't know him personally, but if he deserved to be banned in the summer, then Snaxalotl should have been banned as well, because they were both equally rude to each other, and if i'm not wrong it was Snaxalotl that started insulting first. But you see, Snaxalotl is a buddy of the mods (especially Doomkid), and he's also trans, so he immediatelly gets the free pass, and i guess he can now freely insult people and use sarcastic remarks towards new or less known members. In fact, i've seen him do it already, with no concequences.

Now we have the Cacowards and that awful attrocious post by Scubba Whatever... Basically, what they're saying is, it doesn't matter how talented you are, or if you make something trully impressive like Zeppelin Armada. All that matters is if you are liked on a personal level by a bunch of easily offended snowflakes who run the whole show and are surrounded by a large group of forum regulars who are afraid to speak their minds. This is beyond stupid! "Oh the cacowards are about positivity, you see". Really? I thought the cacowards are about promoting the very best works in Doom, in order to help this community grow and stay strong for decades to come... but i guess i was wrong. That Scubba post wast the last straw for me, i'm done with DW, and this is basically what i posted in the Cacowards thread... guess how long it lasted before they deleted it? Not even 10 minutes, they branded it "derailing", even though it's on topic. Yeah, a forum administrator with 24 years of "experience", doesn't understand the forum rules when he suits him. I call it silencing but whatever... i say, fuck them and their little bubble of insecurity.

Zealots are easy to weaponize and will do most of the leg work. Their ultra progressive veneer serves a function.

As I've said before (I think). The Doomworld bullshit can only affect you as much as you let it. This community is small but has very talented and dedicated people. Sure, it is nice when there is one big community where everyone is friends, and work together to advance the art, but if people don't want to play with you, you can't make them.

Don't waste effort being bothered by the "unfairness" of it, or trying to get the "approval" of people who get off on feeling superior to you, even if the only thing they have going for them is moderation privileges on a webforum.

Just focus on doing what you do best. The DBPs already produce awesome content. The hosts of the cacowards don't want to acknowledge it? Start your own alternative awards. Use whatever system you want. Yes, cacowards is a nice and catchy name, but I'm sure someone can find other words in the language that have a nice "Doomy" ring to them.

To be honest, their ultra progressive veneer bothers me little, as they are largely ideas I also share (and keep out of my mapping because they have zilch to do with it).

My disillusionment with DW is strictly site-specific, and it has to do with a circle of power hungry mods' ability to literally block you out of stuff like your private status if your *strictly Doom* opinions, and I quote verbatim, "annoy a bunch of people"; guess who. I will not waste time cultivating a presence on a site where some little tyrant's whim can choke me like that. My self respect is worth more than one extra playtester.

Sadly I recently also had to leave the Doom Discordsphere, as those very same people from DW's moderating crop (specifically one) used mod powers to expose private info about me they had no business sharing(ie who I was muting *only for myself* on a specific well known server). I will not let a fun hobby of mine be dangerously smeared like that and if that means having no social Doom presence, so be it.

it's not exactly the first time their higher ups, specifically, whinge about and borderline censor the evil fascists... shadowman, tormentor, impie, being triggered by carmack etc. they definitely did worse than writing terrible shit about lesbian macroslaughter. ideally i'd like to see the same thing in reverse but you know how it is